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En route to my daughter's last pm, I finished listening to The Paris Architect. The author does a wonderful job of describing Paris during the German Occupation of WWII. The characters created are believable and quickly become individuals one cheers on for the duration of the book. The architect referred to in the title is a timid French man who is, while designing munitions factories for the Germans, designing hiding places in apartments and homes throughout Paris. These ingenuous hide-a-ways were being used to conceal Jewish people while arrangements were made to smuggle them out of the country. There are portions of the book where the Gestapo is carrying out torture for interrogations that were hard to listen to but these parts make the architect's fear real to the reader/listener of this novel. This is a well written book that is about a favorite time period in my preferred genre. I highly recommend it to others. Please click on the author's name and title above to learn more. In the story, the architect's mistress is a fashion designer. Please enjoy the video that follows about the survival of the fashion industry in Paris during the occupation.
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